Ghanaian politicians, in the face of the ongoing devastating illegal small-scale and alluvial mining, thus, galamsey, are ...

Water from a polluted river in Ghana was so thick and discoloured that an artist was able to use it as paint to depict the environmental devastation caused by the illegal gold mining that has ...

Hundreds of people marched through Ghana’s capital Accra on Friday in a peaceful protest against unlicensed gold mining, calling on authorities to act against the dangerous and environmentally ...

Men with no protective equipment, very little training and sub-par mining tools are spread throughout Ghana as the popularity ...

In August this year, the government announced a ban on alluvial and riverbed mining to curb environmental degradation. The government first announced the ban in 2020, but the practice has ...

The Co-Chair of the Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, Dr Steve Manteaw, described the call for the ban of all mining activities in the country as unjustifiable. Instead ...

The Ghana government through the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice has presented the Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Revocation Instrument, 2024 to Parliament. The new ...

For instance, she cited that while the mining sector’s contribution to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined from GH₵11.449 billion in 2020 to GH₵10.105 billion in 2021 representing a ...

The Trades Union Congress, representing all of Ghana’s labor unions, put forward three main demands: withdraw LI 2462, declare an emergency to tackle illegal mining, and enforce stricter actions ...

GOLD from small scale mining in Ghana totalled 1.2 million ounces in the first seven months of this year – more than in the whole of 2023, said Reuters which cited data from the West African country’s ...

Illegal small-scale gold mining known "galamsey" in Ghana has picked up this year following an almost 30% rise in global gold prices. Small-scale mines produced 1.2 million ounces of gold in the ...